"BAW" == Barry A Warsaw <barry@zope.com> writes:
"GvR" == Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> writes:
GvR> Well, it could certainly grow more standard stuff (like a GvR> traceback pointer) and that would be more useful if there was a GvR> common base class to inherit it from. BAW> Agreed. Of course you can always play the old NeXTSTEP game of BAW> having one base class for backwards compatibility and another BAW> for the New Way, but that's probably more complexity than you BAW> really want. I'm not sure what the base class(es) actually buys us. We could just as well say by fiat that the interpreter will set the traceback attribute of an exception instance to the traceback. Why do we need a special base class to accomplish that? This is Python. You don't need to do isinstance(). You just need to see if it has the right attributes. BTW, what is the signature for Exception.__init__()? I've written many exception classes, often subclasses of some other exception, but I've hardly ever paid attention to the superclass __init__(). It usually suffices to set the right attributes. Jeremy